Frequently asked questions

Before the first call.

The questions IT managers, MSSPs and auditors ask us most often. If yours is not here, write to sales@buguardian.com.

The product

Who is Buguardian for?

Corporate IT teams, MSSPs, MSPs and resellers. An IT team uses it to measure and improve the security of its own organisation. A service provider uses it to run the same cycle as a recurring service for each customer, under its own brand.

What does “micro SOC” mean?

Watcher monitors 24/7, correlates and prioritises the findings from your Buguardian services and calls you with the recommended steps. The action is taken by your own team or your solution partner, with the road map in hand. You get round-the-clock monitoring without hiring analysts.

Is Buguardian a managed detection and response service?

No. Buguardian is a platform that your IT team or your service provider operates. Watcher assesses, prioritises, alerts and reports; it does not provide staffed incident response.

Does it replace my antivirus, EDR or backup?

No. Buguardian is not an antivirus, EDR or backup product. It measures your exposure and works alongside the protection and backup tools you already have.

Do I have to buy every service?

No. Every service runs on its own. Start with the ones you need and add the rest later; each one adds its findings to the same company record and the same score.

Which languages does the console support?

English, Turkish and Spanish.

Deployment and security

What do I have to install?

For internal network scans, one scanning appliance: an Ubuntu virtual machine with at least 4 cores, 8 GB of memory and 100 GB of disk. For inventory and patching, the endpoint agent on each machine. Web scanning, threat intelligence, certificate and blocklist monitoring start from a domain you verify with a DNS record.

How is Buguardian delivered?

As a cloud service (SaaS). It is live in days, with nothing to install for external services.

Do the audits change anything in my environment?

The Active Directory and database health checks are read-only. No account, group, policy or other object is created, changed or deleted.

How are scan credentials protected?

Passwords and secrets are encrypted with AES-256 and are never displayed again after you save them. You can limit a credential to specific IP addresses or ranges. Monitoring targets and their credentials stay on the appliance in your network.

How do you stop a bad patch from reaching every machine?

Deployments open ring by ring. If the pilot ring fails, or the failure threshold you set is exceeded, the rollout stops there. You can also set maintenance windows, exclude an update with a justification, and roll a patch back.

Who can connect to a user's machine remotely?

Operators sign in with their own account and are granted access company by company and capability by capability — screen, keyboard and mouse, file transfer, services, processes, event log. A second factor is required to enter the remote console, and access can be revoked at any time.

Watcher and AI

What does Watcher do?

Two things. It analyses the findings from every service and writes a briefing: observation, analysis, decision. Then it prepares the matching actions in the console — such as a patch deployment or a verification scan — and runs them after you approve.

How does Watcher alert me?

By level. An alarm, which needs immediate action, reaches you 24/7 by voice call and email. A warning arrives the same day by email with the steps to close it. Advisories are collected in the AI-written executive report each period.

Can the AI act without approval?

No. Every action is proposed with its reason and scope and runs only after a person approves it. Actions go through the same controls as manual operations, and each one is recorded.

Is my personal data sent to the language model?

No. Only numerical summaries and ratios are passed to the AI layer; raw records are not sent. Data produced in your environment stays there, and alerts sent outside your organisation do not include vulnerability details.

Posture score

How is the posture score calculated?

Seven weighted categories combine into a number from 0 to 100: technical vulnerability 30%, human factor 20%, data leakage 15%, web vulnerability 10%, firewall posture 10%, identity and directory 10%, operational continuity 5%. The calculation is deterministic and uses only the last completed result from each service.

Does Watcher decide my score?

No. The posture score is calculated deterministically from published weights. Watcher explains the score and works to improve it. If the AI service is unavailable, the calculated score does not change.

Will my score drop if I do not license a service?

No. A service outside your scope does not lower the score; its weight is redistributed to the measured categories. A licensed service that stops reporting is shown as a visibility gap.

Is the score a statement of full coverage?

No. Because unmeasured weight is redistributed, a score from a limited assessment can look like one from a full assessment. Every report states which categories were measured, which were out of scope and which have stale or missing data.

What reports do I get?

PDF reports for the posture score, network scans, web scans, phishing campaigns, firewall analysis, Active Directory health checks and threat intelligence — plus a one-page executive report each period.

Partners and licensing

Can I manage several customers from one account?

Yes. Distributors, solution partners and customers each have their own level, and every customer has an isolated workspace. One login covers all of them.

Can I sell it under my own brand?

Yes. The panel, the reports and the communication can carry your brand, while the operation runs on Buguardian.

How is Watcher licensed?

Per company, as a one-month demo, an annual licence or a three-year licence. Prices are quoted on request.

How is the Enterprise Suite licensed?

Buguardian Management and ThreatAuthenticator are licensed per agent per month, from a minimum of 10 licences, with no distinction between servers and clients.

What does credit-based mean?

You buy capacity and spend it across services and tenants as demand appears — for example, on-demand threat reports and re-tests. There is no upfront infrastructure investment.

Compliance

Does Buguardian make us compliant?

No. Buguardian produces recurring technical evidence that can support security reviews, customer questionnaires and selected control assessments. It does not issue certifications or guarantee compliance, and it does not replace legal advice or independent assessment.

Which frameworks does the evidence map to?

ISO/IEC 27001:2022, NIST CSF 2.0, NIS2, GDPR and, in Türkiye, KVKK, depending on jurisdiction and deployment. See the compliance mapping page for the control-by-control table.

Is the DDoS simulation available to everyone?

No. It is an optional, restricted assessment, subject to availability and scope. It runs only with explicit authorisation, documented scope, provider permission, rate limits, agreed test windows and an emergency stop.

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